Although the failed effort may have been a work of "philosophical purity," it was overshadowed by HTML 5. Why are Web standards so darned hard to create? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

We report a set of tools to be used in conjunction with a robot-based Internet indexing engine which can be used to convert non-conforming HTML collections to well-formed and valid XHTML documents.

XML: Extended Markup Language XML makes data interchange easier on embedded systems by using a standard, extensible encoding scheme for structured data. It's not as efficient as custom binary data ...